The poultry industry is facing severe challenges as the cost of chicken feed has doubled from K75 000 to K150 000 per 50kg bag. A note from ProtoFeeds, a leading poultry feed supplier, shows that ...

An innovative and low-cost project aims to bio-convert food scraps into fertilizer, animal feed and extractable oil using the ...

Even the costs of the accountant, the membership of the poultry farmers’ association and the internet costs are reimbursed. Annually, an automatic correction is made for inflation, and each quarter a ...

“To support this, we have strict biosecurity measures in place and fully control the internal climate in our barns. But a large contributor to poultry health is what we feed our birds and the ...

Although the egg is resistant to slow, evenly distributed pressure, it is vulnerable to sharp, concussive pressure. It has to be. Neonatal chicks weighing a tenth of a pound peck their way out. Just 5 ...

Thinking about raising backyard chickens? Learn the rules, challenges and expert tips to ensure a healthy and productive flock.

Brazilian broiler breeders, the world’s largest exporters rejected and slammed Bolivian president Evo Morales’ statements that linked the consumption of chicken to homosexuality. Last Tuesday ...

Gov. Kathy Hochul must shut down NYC’s live poultry markets for good, activists urged this week after visiting four recently reopened spots. “Each one of these places was worse than the last ...

The negative broiler welfare points detected were pododermatitis, litter quality, density, dust, culling, feed withdrawal time, inefficient stunning, pre-stun shock, and hepatitis. The positive points ...